Opera has always been a scrappy, innovative art form. Take the composer Richard Wagner, who designed his own orchestra pit and invented his own instruments ? a new trumpet and tuba ? just to get more ...

Building an opera house in the middle of the African desert was Christoph Schlingensief's biggest dream. Now that he has passed away, the opera project in Burkina Faso may be abandoned. In the African ...

NEW YORK — The East Village Opera Company channels both Mozart and Freddy Mercury when they perform. And that’s not a bad thing. The 11-person group rearranges opera arias and overtures to add ...

It's only fitting. After all, rock music has borrowed liberally from the pageantry of opera for decades. Isn't it about time opera got a little payback? The impetus for New York's East Village Opera ...

You probably have never heard opera performed like this. The East Village Opera Company, which is comprised of a five-piece band, a string quartet and two vocalists, offers hard-hitting arrangements ...

An opera house in Africa? Diebedo Francis Kere, the architect behind director Christoph Schlingensief's visionary idea, tells Deutsche Welle why the project is good for his country, Burkina Faso.

It was an enchanting summer evening, and the large audience that attended the opening performance of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific was completely enchanted by the well-sung, energetic ...

Based on the 1910 horror novel by Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera is a thrilling and romantic account of the legendary Phantom, a musical genius who dwells deep beneath a majestic opera house ...

The Play: Two romantic comedies, George Bernard Shaw’s comedy Village Wooing and Giancarlo Menotti’s opera The Telephone, presented by Village Opera, directed by Adam Corrigan-Holowitz, starring ...